COVID-19

Ep. 59: Taking Flight, with Delta’s Ed Bastian

“We're working well as an industry, not just within the airline industry, but across the hospitality sector. We want customers to feel confident….People want to move; people want to get out. There's a cabin fever...and we want to make sure...

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Taking Flight, with Delta’s Ed Bastian

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Ep. 58: Care for the Caregivers, with Cleveland Clinic’s Tomislav Mihaljevic

“The unfortunate, almost tragic, paradox of this situation is that 1.2 million health-care professionals in the United States have lost their jobs because of the financial strains that the COVID pandemic put on health-care organizations.”...

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Care for the Caregivers, with Cleveland Clinic’s Tomislav Mihaljevic

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Ep. 56: The Analyst, with Two Sigma’s David Siegel

“This experience is a grand experiment in online work, online education, online shopping. You really couldn't have created a better experiment, and we're learning an awful lot. Not everything is working so well, and some things are working...

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The Analyst, with Two Sigma’s David Siegel

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Ep. 55: Test and Isolate, with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

“The fundamental decision that every society has to make is, can we suppress this virus forever if necessary? Can we afford to do that?...If you know that you're going to give up, there's no point to suppress for a while.” Nobel Prize...

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Test and Isolate, with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

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Ep. 54: In Translation, with NCATS’ Christopher Austin

“Are we going to require the same level of evidence for a vaccine...before it is approved? Could we potentially begin to use it at the same time we're still studying it? Normally we would never do that, but it's this kind of translational...

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In Translation, with NCATS’ Christopher Austin

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Ep. 53: Helping Hand, with Brent McIntosh

“In America, we don't look to the government alone to develop the solutions. We look to the creativity and ingenuity and vitality of the private sector, whether it's corporations or philanthropic organizations for many of those solutions.”...

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Helping Hand, with Brent McIntosh

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News Release

Milken Institute launches hub to monitor African countries’ and international funding response to pandemic

27 May 2020

Marking 100 days of COVID-19 on the continent, the new hub tracks number of confirmed cases, testing progress, policy decisions, and the global response. Washington, D.C. – May 27, 2020 – Decisive government leadership spared many African...

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John Schellhase

Director, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy

John Schellhase is a director of Strategic Philanthropy at the Milken Institute. He contributes to and manages projects related to strengthening corporate philanthropy, including overseeing the Institute’s Corporate Philanthropy Leadership Collective.

Ep. 52: The Stakes, with Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa

“Public health will not be able to cope with this pandemic if it becomes a major crisis of the scale that we have seen in the West and in China. There's almost nothing we can do about it because we just don't have time. But it has been a...

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The Stakes, with Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa

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Ep. 51: Service, with Former Congressman Henry Waxman

“Explain things in a credible way so that the public understands why they're being asked to do things. You can't force people – especially Americans – to do things they refuse to do.” When he retired from the U.S. House of Representatives...

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Service, with Former Congressman Henry Waxman

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Power of Ideas

COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Change

27 May 2020

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” Business leaders have spent the last few years talking about and preparing for the future of work. Unexpectedly, the workforce changed to an extent and scale never...

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Charlie Scharf

CEO, Wells Fargo

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